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title: She quickly sank, and the elder stump dived immediately after her; i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She quickly sank, and the elder stump dived immediately after her; in fact, it was he who drew her down. Who acts: child, elder stump, stump, arm. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 51

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She quickly sank, and the elder stump dived immediately after her; in fact, it was he who drew her down.

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**Who acts:** child, elder stump, stump, arm · **What happens:** sink, dive, be, draw down · **To what, where:** arm, child, fact

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, elder stump, stump, arm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:83:51
# text = She quickly sank, and the elder stump dived immediately after her; in fact, it was he who drew her down.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | child |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **dive** | past | the elder stump |  |  |  | after child | immediately *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | past | stump | arm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **draw down** | past | arm | child |  | fact |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in fact=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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